Attack on the rebel works. Fredericksburg. Dec. 13th, 1862 December 13, drawing on tan paper pencil and Chinese white, 10.3 x 35.4 cm. (sheet), 1862-1865, by Alfred R Waud, 1828-1891, an american artist famous for his American Civil War sketches,...

Building pontoon bridges at Fredericksburg Dec. 11th, 1862 December 11, drawing on pink-tan paper pencil and Chinese white, 20. 7 x 23.4 cm. (sheet), 1862-1865, by Alfred R Waud, 1828-1891, an american artist famous for his American Civil War sketches,...

EUROPE United Kingdom | Ireland -- 20 Dec 2010 -- It's Snow White...Snow cover over the British Isles including the Republic of Ireland on the 8th December 2010 as seen from the MODIS instrument on the NASA Terra satellite. Arctic conditions abated...

Lord Kitchener superseded Lord Roberts in Dec. 1910 as Commander-in-chief of the British troops in South Africa. He represented the English Government in the negotiations which were crowned by the Peace Treaty of Vereeniging.

1900 photograph of Hôspital Saint-Louis in Paris, France was founded by King Henry IV in 1607 to decongest the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris during the plague. He named it St. Louis in memory of Louis IX, who died of the plague that devastated Tunis in 1270.

The Mitzpe Revivim Museum; located on Kibbutz Revivim; a community established prior to Israel's Declaration of Independence that played an important role in Israel's War of Independence. Three such outposts were set up in 1943 and their very...

The Mitzpe Revivim Museum; located on Kibbutz Revivim; a community established prior to Israel's Declaration of Independence that played an important role in Israel's War of Independence. Three such outposts were set up in 1943 and their very...

The Boturini Codex painted by an unknown Aztec author some time between 1530 and 1541, roughly a decade after the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Pictorial in nature, it tells the story of the legendary Aztec journey from Aztlán to the Valley of Mexico....

Prince Regent of Japan later the Emperor Showa ( April 29, 1901 – January 7, 1989) reigning from December 25, 1926, until his death on January 7, 1989. Although better known outside of Japan by his personal name Hirohito 1921

KAZAKHSTAN Baikonur Cosmodrome -- 14 Dec 2015 -- The British ESA astronaut Tim Peake at a pre-launch press conference before his departure to the International Space Station on 15 Dec 2015. Tim Peake is the first British astronaut to visit the ISS and...

UK SCOTLAND Edinburgh -- 06 Dec 2010 -- Shoppers in Prince's Street in central Edinburgh as the Christmas shopping season begins in earnest. Some shops are already offering discounts in the run up to Christmas, rather than in January as is the...

KAZAKHSTAN Baikonur Cosmodrome -- 2015 -- The British ESA astronaut Tim Peake testing his Sokol pressure suit and Soyuz spacecraft seat in Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, in preparation for his launch to the International Space Station on 15 Dec 2015....

KAZAKHSTAN Baikonur Cosmodrome -- 2015 -- The British ESA astronaut Tim Peake (left) testing his Sokol pressure suit and Soyuz spacecraft seat in Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, in preparation for his launch to the International Space Station on 15 Dec...

LOCATION UNKNOWN -- 26 Nov 2009 -- The British ESA astronaut Tim Peake before his launch to the International Space Station on 15 Dec 2015. Tim Peake is the first British astronaut to visit the ISS and will be launched together with commander Yuri...

LOCATION UNKNOWN -- Sep 2015 -- The British ESA astronaut Tim Peake before his launch to the International Space Station on 15 Dec 2015. Tim Peake is the first British astronaut to visit the ISS and will be launched together with commander Yuri...

USA Johnson Space Centre -- 16 Jun 2015 -- The British ESA astronaut Tim Peake training in preparation for his launch to the International Space Station on 15 Dec 2015 at Johnson Space Centre in Texas, USA. Tim Peake is the first British astronaut to...

KAZAKHSTAN Baikonur Cosmodrome -- 15 Dec 2015 -- Major Tim Peake (lower of the three) is the first official British astronaut to visit the ISS and will be launched together with commander Yuri Malenchenko (top) from ROSCOSMOS and NASA astronaut Tim...

KAZAKHSTAN Baikonur Cosmodrome -- 15 Dec 2015 -- Major Tim Peake signs his name - as per tradition - on a door at the Cosmonaut Hotel at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Tim Peake is the first British astronaut to visit the ISS and will be...

KAZAKHSTAN Baikonur Cosmodrome -- 15 Dec 2015 -- Major Tim Peake (left) is the first official British astronaut to visit the ISS and will be launched together with commander Yuri Malenchenko (centre) from ROSCOSMOS and NASA astronaut Tim Kopra (right)...

From an original Steel Engraving Daubigne's History of the Reformation pub 1869. Engraver W Chevalier after Labouchere. Wiki: Exsurge Domine (Latin: Arise O Lord) is a papal bull issued on 15 June 1520 by Pope Leo X. It was written in response to...

Original engraving from The Illustrated London news of 28 January 1871. Info from wiki: Castor and Pollux were two elephants kept at the zoo Jardin des Plantes in Paris. They were killed and eaten, along with many other animals from the zoo, in late...

Louis Napoleon, first & only president of the second French Republic, taking oath of office, in front of the French National Assembly, 20 December 1848, Swearing in of Louis Napoleon, , image, picture, organised a coup d'état in 1851, took the...

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Original engraving from The Illustrated London news of 30 December 1848. Info from wiki: Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (born Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) was the only president (1848–52) of the French Second Republic and,...

Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist J.A.C. Charles, who made the first flight in a hydrogen balloon, Dec. 1, 1783. Includes banner with caption "Jusq'alors san égal, le monarque des airs, y suivit son rival" and large...

Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist J.A.C. Charles, who made the first flight in a hydrogen balloon, Dec. 1, 1783. Includes banner with caption, Jusq'alors san égal, le monarque des airs, y suivit son rival, and large bird in...

Six Years in Biscay, comprising a personal narrative of the sieges of Bilbao in June 1835, and Oct. to Dec. 1836. and of the principal events which occurred in that city and the Basque provinces, during the years 1830 to 1837

Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist J.A.C. Charles, who made the first flight in a hydrogen balloon, Dec. 1, 1783. Includes banner with caption, Jusq'alors san égal, le monarque des airs, y suivit son rival, and large bird in...

Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist J.A.C. Charles, who made the first flight in a hydrogen balloon, Dec. 1, 1783. Includes banner with caption "Jusq'alors san égal, le monarque des airs, y suivit son rival" and large...

Frederick II (born December 26, 1194 in Jesi in Ancona, Italy; died Dec, 13, 1250 in Castelfiorentino in Lucera, Italy) from the House of Staufer was from 1198 King of Sicily, from 1211/12 German Koenig and 1220 until his death Emperor of the Holy Ro

Lazar Dokic, Dokitsch, Serbian scholar and stateman, born in 1843 in Belgrade - Dec. 13, 1893 in Abbazia, studied medicine in Vienna, was a doctor in Belgrade for a short time, and then became professor of natural sciences at Belgrade University and...

EARTH British Isles -- 30 Dec 2016 -- This composite image from NASA satellite data shows the Midlands, eastern and southern England and the English Channel blanketed in dense fog, which has led to widespread road and ait travel disruption today --...

EARTH Europe -- 31 Dec 2016 -- This composite satellite data from NASA shows much of Europe swathed in banks of dense fog (bright white areas) today, as the continent prepares to wave goodbye to 2016 and welcomes in the New Year -- Picture by Atlas...

EARTH Europe -- 31 Dec 2016 -- This composite satellite data from NASA shows much of Europe swathed in banks of dense fog (bright white areas) today, as the continent prepares to wave goodbye to 2016 and welcomes in the New Year -- Picture by Atlas...